Posts by DRendar 296 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jan 2009
Just use a proxy. All your internet traffic will then come from that IPv6 address which can be routed out over your ADSL link.
Alternatively, ditch your leased line altogether and run a 6to4 tunnel to your other site. With the money saved from your leased line, you can get fatter internet pipes.
Unfortunately the majority of what you are saying here is the typical FUD I hear every day regarding IPv6.
With the upmost of respect - you don't know what you're talking about.
".. but it is (IPv6 not IPv4) and that's why it's been around all those years with zero uptake."
Actually it is very heavily used in academia, military, research and development, and the scientific community. Just as the internet initially grew out as (mostly) a bunch of universities for them to share research - IPv6 is getting pushed from that direction too.
"-Every computer IP-trackable by doubleclick, google, etc? BAD. Effectively, an indelible supercookie."
How is this any different to what you have now? Home / SOHO networks generally all connect to the internet from a fixed / virtually fixed IP address. Larger corporate networks can use host id randomisation, which is actually built into the Windows IPv6 stack by default.
"-Internal IP addresses tied to your ISP, your LAN infrastructure therefore tied to your ISP. Bad idea."
Homes and Small businesses rarely have more than one subnet on the site - the only router on the whole network is the internet gateway, so on the very rare ocassion that they move ISP, you change the LAN IP on the router, and Stateless Autoconfiguration takes care of the rest. DHCP - Just change the scope. If you've used Static IP addresses instead of DHCP reservations, well that's just your own fault, and you obviously have the knowledge to set it again.
Large public sector / corporate networks wouldn't be using ISP provided IP addresses anyway - they would be using Provider Independent address ranges that can move with them as they move providers.
"-Nightmarish scheme for writing IP addresses... imagine giving phone support to a home user."
It will be tough at first I'll give you that - but what do you suggest - represent an IPv6 address in dotted decimal!? The new Hex format is vastly better than using decimal - less space taken up - easier conversion to binary form.
"-How the hell do you tell if your firewall is secure, with so complex a scheme? Dunno. Beyond me, and I'm just the IT guy."
Er - it's actually less complex because you take NAT out of the equation. Your entire internal network is represented as a single prefix, anything else is outside. Your firewall objects will be named anyway.
Not so long ago, when IP was winning the Layer3 wars - all the old Appletalk and IPX/SPX guys were bemoaning IP "Oh.. it's too complicated" "The old way was better" And at about that time people were getting paid 6-figure sums to go and carry out the migrations. IPv6 is going that way - and I'm seriously looking forward to it, because I'm one of those guys who is hopefully going to be getting paid obscene amounts of money to do IPv6 rollouts, because everyone else is too scared to look at it properly.
IPv6 is the monster in the cupboard - scary as hell. Until you open the cupboard and find that there's no monsters at all - it's just John Goodman is a big fluffy blue suit.
You only think NAT is a security measure because you've probably only ever experienced it on firewalls or SOHO routers. And this isn't even true NAT (Network Address Translation) it is actually PAT (Port Address Translation) or NAT Overload, depending on who you did your network studies with.
If you run NAT or PAT only on a router for example, and have no firewall or ACLs in place, then there is very little security added.
People (even some security 'professionals' I've worked with) operate under the false pretence that by having a device accessible by a different IP address than is configured on the device itself is somehow more secure. It isn't. FACT. It's the firewall rules that exist on the device that did the NATing that are protecting you.
"Well in a roundabout way it will, sponsorship is the key, if viewing figures drop, so does the teams income, the sad fact of the matter is the UK is but a drop in the ocean for viewing figures meaning Bernie could care less as long as he gets money."
...but it's COULDN'T care less, god damn it! ;-)
Me neither, but I do RECORD live TV so I can FF through the adverts. You need a License if you watch or record live TV. Full Stop, end of story.
If you genuinely don't watch or record ANY live TV, e.g. if you just have a TV for Playing console games. Then you just have to let the BBC know, and they leave you alone.
Personally, I'm happy to pay for the BBC - it works out to about £12 a month, for frankly, the best stuff on the telly. (excluding Dead-Enders) and NO Adverts!!
I pay nearly £50 for my Sky subscription a month AND I still have to watch the Fucking adverts (Well, I don't as like I said previously I just record and FF through them).
I'd happily pay £100/m to not have to watch adverts... maybe we'll get there... one day.
"did you ever here of anyone getting fined because they have 5 TVs on one licence? Just as much against the law."
Complete drivel - a License covers the address for as many devices as you like, but doesn't cover lodgers rooms, flats in the same building etc.
Business Licenses cover up to 15 devices. If you they more than 15 devices then you need an additional license for each additional 5 devices.
Also those bemoaning the plight of the OAPs... Those over 75 get it for free (Although I personally think this should be 65, the same as the bus pass), and those in a care home get it for £7.50
http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one/topics/tv-licence-types-and-costs-top2/
And by the way - it's HEAR not here.
"The 3-finger salute is something you traditionally give to a WINDOWS(tm) box not a Linux box "
Actually it's a generic PC thing - 3 finger salute works during POST too you know - it wasn't invented by M$
Every Linux box I've used for the past 10 Years+ has had CTRL-ALT-DEL mapped to either "shutdown -h now" or "shutdown -r now"
Saves you having to logon see.
"and a block for all comments containing "could of"? Please."
ABSOLUTELY AGREE.
Also a way to block people for the incorrect use of:
their / there / they're
too / to / two
its / it's
How about a grammar down-vote button? Get 100 of these and you have to suffer a "This poster is a moron" icon on all posts for 1 month!
I'm not talking about people who obviously don't have English as a first language - that's acceptable.
Oh, and people who say "I could care less" should just be shot on the spot.
Velv: "You simply dial the last 6 (or 7 for some cities) digits."
Actually in several large cities, including London, Cardiff & Southampton, it's a 3 digit area code, with an 8 digit number.
I think N.I is now one big area code now too.. 027 or 028... I don't remember.
I wouldn't be surprised if the place that this story refers to simply moves to a 3Digit area code instead.
You can't put ADSL over an ISDN line, PRI or otherwise.
ADSL works over PSTN because it uses frequencies which are mostly outside the range of human hearing, and the microfilters deal with any overlap.
A PRI channel has only 64k of bandwidth available to it, it doesn't have the available frequency overhead that is required for an ADSL connection.
"My android phone keeps rather good time - it's synced to the GSM/3G time"
I'm guessing you're a 'merkin then. Android has a form of timesync in the shape of NITZ, which is what you are obviously using in the US. However in the UK, as in much of the world, we don't have NITZ.
Google developers don't seem to realise that NITZ is not available everywhere.
At least I hope so. But what i want to know is will Google finally start listening to their customers and start integrating or allowing critical features such as:
IPSec VPN Support
Accurate time settings (You currently can't set the time seconds)
Timesync (NTP) / Allow user apps to set system time (With user authorisation)
System Proxy Settings
WORKING AND RELIABLE BLUETOOTH VOICE DIALING (Honestly, seriously - it's a fucking phone OS and you can't reliably voice dial)
Google Docs support
and many more that THOUSANDS of Android users have requested and are summarily ignored.
Take a look at http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/list?can=1&q=&sort=-stars
It's an eye-opener, and one that Google should be ashamed of.
I'm sorry that you were in an accident, but I call BS on this.
If you were on the road, then it wasn't deserted. And if it was dry and straight, how did he not see you? Were you driving in the middle lane, doing 40 without your lights on at night?
And even if you *were* doing 40MPH on a deserted motorway - this is a dangerous speed, as you're doing between 50-60% of the speed of most traffic and if he then hit you at 80MPH then it's extremely unlikely that you'd walk away with barely a scratch. Was the Porche a write-off? Was he killed?
Or are you saying you were doing 70MPH, and therefore he hit you at 140MPH?
So lets assume you're telling the truth - the reason for the accident is one of the two of you were driving like a nob.
Speed, and speed alone, doesn't cause accidents - bad driving causes accidents. If the accident happened at 90, then it will have happened at 70 as well.
Why do you people not reply in-thread? Is it so that people won't notice your 'reply', not respond and so it looks like you won the argument?
My Yankdar is going off again.
You must have been in Valencia in the 1980s. Modern Diesels are quiet and refined with only a hint of rattle. There is no way that you heard a new S-Class over the sound of your own engine - none - zlich. Unless you were riding a bicycle. Or he was doing 80MPH in second gear.
The new small 1.2l - 1.6l TDi engines do rattle a fair bit - especially the Bluemotion ones but not the 2-4l power houses they put in high end Mercs/VAG/Beemers
Diesels have more torque, lower CO2 emissions*, Less Tax (VED) for equivalent Power, WAY better fuel consumption**, last longer ***, can run on nearly anything****, and retain their value for longer*****. What's not to like?
* yes yes they have higher NO2 among other things, but when you take into account that a diesel will probably have an on-the-road life nearly double that of an equivalent petrol, and the pollution caused by the manufacture of that second petrol car - well you get the idea.
** Even taking the higher cost of Diesel into account - yes
*** Yes the servicing is slightly more expensive - but not massively so like some make out - and as I've said - the car will last probably twice as long.
***** Just not the French ones...
"-there is a hint that the reviewer drove above the speed limit. If the review was conducted in the UK, that is an admission of guilt which ought to interest the police."
STFU you middle lane hogging git. (I'm assuming a bit there - but the MO fits)
He doesn't state where he drove - but for all you know it could have been on a deserted, dry, straight motorway. Still technically illegal, but hurting no-one.
"-fuel economy suffers from aggressive acceleration and driving above 70mph, both of which this vehicle appears to emphasise"
Not always - my 03 Golf TDi gets better MPG at 85 than at 70.
And I'd much prefer a car with more accelerating potential in the 40 - 90MPH range - all the better for overtaking YOU doing 45 MPH on a 50 road.
For one thing it is a damn sight safer to be able to put your foot down and get past someone before the 18Wheeler runs you down.
-all "green" cars take up as much space as "brown" cars.
And you take up as much space as the next person - what's your point?
"-the overall CO2 footprint of the VW/Audi/Seat/Skoda portfolio is pretty weak. Yes, they hype their bluemotion, but BMW have made far better progress in reducing their average CO2 emission rate than VAG have. The BlueMotion product line is essentially there to look eco-smug -at a premium- rather than fix the efficiency of the total fleet."
They've made better PROGRESS, that doesn't make it better overall.
That's because BMW have only just (<10 years) started making smaller, more efficient cars... i.e. 1 Series and Mini. VAG always have made smaller cars, and so their only improvements are to existing lines.
If Bugatti suddenly added a 1-series Efficient-Dynamics type car to their lineup, then their PROGRESS would be vastly better than the two wouldn't it?
Considering that the only feasible excuse for buying one of these is to tow something, where are the Kerb Weight and Towing tests?
Can it pull a horse box for example? And are there any decent Diesel engines - other than the 2WD one you mentioned?
I'm of a mixed feeling about this vehicle... I feel extremely patriotic about LandRover - they are incredible 4x4 vehicles - probably the best in the world, but it makes me mad when they are driven by inconsiderate twats who only use them for driving Quentin and Chardonnay to school, where they block the road and have never so much as driven though a puddle during their existence.
A 3 door Range Rover? For fucks sake....
"Widescreen came about because t.v.'s were using the same 4:3 aspect ratio that films were using. To distinguish itself from television and maintaining it's market, the film industry began to move to widescreen. It also began to expand the use of colour."
What a load of bollocks.
The 4:3 ratio came about because it was the widest ratio that was possible with the technology at the time (Early CRT). If they had had the tech back then it would have been a wider ratio right from the get go - the reason for widescreen is that human vision is about that proportion.
It is far easier to get widescreen ratio using a projector than with a CRT, which is why cinema went that way first.
Don't just make stuff up - it makes you look like a twat.
Surely you'd be better simply connecting your console to a second input on the screen, or if it doesn't have one, using a £10 HDMI / DVI switch.
Or were you referring to playing your console in a window on your desktop, which I would have thought would be an awful experience.
Woah - my Yank-dar just went crazy.
Here's a tip: .co.uk means this is a UK site, and that means Satire, Irony and other forms of humour will be used.
That article - for el'Reg - was actually EXTREMELY factual, with hardly any opinions at all.
The comment at the end was IRONY - go look it up, numbskull.
Forgive me, but are you referring to the 1-series being Rear Wheel Drive?
These are great fun to drive hard (and is great for track days) but as soon as you get a bit of snow it's fecking useless without snow chains.
Last winter, with only a single exception, every tailback / incident that I saw was caused by either BMWs, Mercs or other RWD vehicles which had zero grip and were trying to drive in the snow.
One incident on the M4 Eastbound near Newport was caused by a woman in a CLK who got stuck on a 10% incline and couldn't get moving again, she was just spinning in the middle lane with her rear-end waving from side to side like a disgruntled moggy. This caused a 20 mile tailback of Stationary traffic which lasted for over 6 hours. (One of my work colleagues was stuck in it on his way home, I was going West - smiling quietly to myself.)
For gods sake all you Beemer and Merc (and other RWD vehicles) - this winter, either buy snowchains/socks, get a 1/2 tonne of ballast in your boot, or please, stay the fuck off the road.
Really?
Seriously?
How many Common rail or PD engined Diesel engines were there in the 1980s? Ummmm NONE
And do you think that the corrosive and poisonous chemicals released during the manufacture of those batteries is any better? Don't listen to the American Oil Companies - they lie more than politicians... Well considering most US politicians are OWNed by them that's unsurprising.
And the Diesel engine was invented in the 1890's by the way.
I will NOT!
I R boffin damnit (Although more BOFHin than Boffin nowadays :-)
You are correct that the Ampera does now partially connect the generator to the planetary gear system - but only at 'high speed' (what that means exactly hasn't been stated)
The Ampera will happily go from 0 to 60 without any direct linkage, and will drive on electric only up to 80Km with using a single drop of dino juice.
--"In certain areas HSD is rather better than the GM tech as it can actually recharge the battery using the engine, something the Volt/Ampera does not do if reports are to be believed (if so, WHY?). "
I'm afraid those reports are wrong... It does recharge the battery, but doesn't - by design - charge it past a certain limit - the reason is that generating electricity from dino-juice is more expensive, both in money and CO2 than from the grid. If electrical energy is needed that isn't available in the battery then it will fire up, but why burn money recharging the battery any more than it needs to?
I can see your point about fleet drivers never plugging the thing in, but you can come up with scenarios that make anything look uneconomical... If I drive my Golf at 80MPH in 3rd gear with the A/C on full and the windows down, I'll get shit economy too.
Or for a better example - I bet most of those A4s and 5-Series drive around with Sport Mode switched on constantly too.
I direct you to the Ampera blog - which while very much self-serving (obviously) is extremely interesting reading, and explains many of the design decisions they've taken.
http://opel-ampera.com/wp_en/
Parallel hybrids are so last decade.
Plus they have fuel economy comparable / inferior (in some cases) to Diesel, VERY questionable eco-credentials, and are just too bloody heavy and complicated.
Waiting to see what the Serial Hybrids (Sorry - Extended Range EV) will be like thanks... Bring on the Ampera!
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